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I spent 15 years buying backlinks from the SEO underbelly. Same wholesale lists rebranded across hundreds of "vendors." DR/DA inflated through closed link networks. Dead sites sold as live. Subdomains disguised as parent-domain placements. Press release distribution to 313 sites that turned out to be 30 fake-news domains spun across hundreds of niche subdomains. A reptile niche edit delivered as a link on a dog article. Here's how the economy works, why agencies resell the same garbage at higher price points, and the questions that keep you out of it.